Test 11 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?
my mate slipped on the ice lol it was so funny
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: slip, be · To what, where: ice
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ice | det |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 7 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 11 funny | discourse |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 funny | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 funny | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 funny | advmod |
| 11 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slipped | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | my mate | the ice | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mate | funny property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
First check that she's okay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 check | advmod |
| 2 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 okay | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 okay | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 okay | cop |
| 6 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 check | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | she | okay property | tree rules |
Option 2
Walk away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Walk | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Laugh louder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Laugh | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Film it for later so you can show everyone at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Film | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 later | case |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 show | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 show | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | aux |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 show | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | Film | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | show | can | Film | everyone | school | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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